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>> Fedora Security Update Fixes Tk GIF Image Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Title : Fedora Security Update Fixes Tk GIF Image Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2007-3557
CVE ID : CVE-2007-5378
Rated as : Moderate Risk 
Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2007-10-22


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A vulnerability has been identified in Fedora, which could be exploited by attackers to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code. This issue is caused by an error in Tk. For additional information, see : VUPEN/ADV-2007-3412

Affected Products

Fedora 7

Solution

Upgrade the affected packages :

2f9dbe2132bf4fc78f8421e5ef6b9066d908c961 tk-8.4.13-6.fc7.ppc64.rpm
dfd62ad97a40e452f90f1d303332decbd274524d tk-debuginfo-8.4.13-6.fc7.ppc64.rpm
caf8b249afc9309cde1cc24b4946652045487912 tk-devel-8.4.13-6.fc7.ppc64.rpm
283a46b8af5b941e56f190b2f480d5447c86e84b tk-8.4.13-6.fc7.i386.rpm
55c6896d1c31cd6c6e053275e6ebe218e02b17fa tk-debuginfo-8.4.13-6.fc7.i386.rpm
9ae4f4e6258199851a8ad0b57feb448952f48956 tk-devel-8.4.13-6.fc7.i386.rpm
37d7a2427add562debe4db70c17c26d9d25556c7 tk-debuginfo-8.4.13-6.fc7.x86_64.rpm
15470e5810da218ab82bcc5b4cf609609b5c2d07 tk-8.4.13-6.fc7.x86_64.rpm
b119aeb80fbdc14e5bcedbcfbc7a265da6a3ac96 tk-devel-8.4.13-6.fc7.x86_64.rpm
d15bf067c74b67c516a8d3d482f00ba767de1a04 tk-8.4.13-6.fc7.ppc.rpm
e117e10b20001966a93fd96eba81a6541d7cd701 tk-debuginfo-8.4.13-6.fc7.ppc.rpm
2855c76d43b4dcbc5e84bfcef6632ba16fb584cd tk-devel-8.4.13-6.fc7.ppc.rpm
7781a6f38cca6f9c65027d00e85fd92cb4ad0935 tk-8.4.13-6.fc7.src.rpm

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3557
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-October/msg00261.html

ChangeLog

2007-10-22 : Initial release

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